Impacts on Practice: ACRP in the Classroom: Reimagining the Textbook at the University of North Dakota Department of Aviation

Within the academic aviation world, good textbooks can be hard to come by. Not only do few aviation textbook publishers exist, but the aviation industry is constantly changing. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's latest Impacts on Practice brief, ACRP in the Classroom: Reimagining the Textbook at the University of North Dakota Department of Aviation , details how Dr. Kim Kenville uses ACRP Research Report 16, Second Edition: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports , in her classes. “This publica...

Impacts on Practice: ACRP in the Classroom: Reimagining the Textbook at the University of North Dakota Department of Aviation

Call for Papers: “Transport Policy in Post COVID-19 World” – Due May 31

The Journal of Transport Policy has announced an open call for papers related to transportation policy in a post Coronavirus/COVID-19 world. Submit your paper before May 31, 2020 for consideration.
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History Highlights: Poster Sessions – An International Bazaar for Ideas

The annual meeting began experimenting with posters in the early 2000s because too many quality research papers were being left behind due to a lack of time in lectern sessions. At first the unfamiliar form struggled, and annual meeting planners realiz...
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“Tell Us ‘Our’ Story”

Shannon Roberts, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst was "drawn to the transportation community through my love of driving. Being able to do research and have a career focused on my passion is rewarding. What keeps me in transporta...
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Karma Automotive debuts all-new Level 4 autonomous van E-Flex Platform

The second of five E-Flex Platforms, the van system is compatible with both two and four motor propulsion.
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RFP: Preparing Transportation Agencies for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Work Zones

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to help transportation agencies prepare for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in work zones by identifying technical needs and potential impacts of CAV...
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National Academies studying “seasonal effects” of COVID-19 for White House

Given that countries currently experiencing “summer” climates , such as Australia and Iran, are experiencing rapid COVID-19 spread, a decrease in cases with increases in humidity and temperature should not be assumed. The National Academies, of which T...
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Navigant Research recognizes four leaders in the development of automated driving systems

Waymo, Ford Autonomous Vehicles, Cruise, and Baidu top the list.
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Updating traffic management standards

Mapping Comparison: Guide to Temporary Traffic Management and Australian Standard 1742.3 , released by Austroads
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Phantom AI raises $22M to fund ADAS development

Phantom AI, developer of a vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving platform, announced it has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Celeres Investments and joined by Ford Motor Company and KT (Korea’s largest telco). Existing investors Millenni...
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Karma release a flexible platform for electric mobility

Karma Automotive have announced the release of a versatile hybrid vehicle chassis suitable for autonomous delivery vehicles to supercars. Karma Automotive COO, Kevin Pavlov , says, “We created a physical product that can be formatted into five d...
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Volvo ramp up autonomous development with company acquisition

Volvo Cars will continue its focus on the development of autonomous drive software after acquiring one half of Zenuity, the assisted and autonomous driving software development company. Volvo Cars’ part of Zenuity will focus on developing unsupervised...
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Bosch’s Project 3F presents its results on automated driving at low speed

The driverless shuttle project aims to stay on track despite malfunctions.
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Featured Centennial Paper – Truck and Bus Safety: Research Topics and Focus Areas

The goal of the Truck and Bus Safety Committee, created in 2003, is to focus on motor carrier safety in all its aspects, including research and evaluation in human, roadway, vehicle, operational, and organizational arenas. Topic areas include problem a...
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“Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” March Responses Online – What have you learned about yourself in volunteering for TRB?

Nikola Ivanov "learned that just as I am gaining valuable knowledge from thousands of TRB volunteers, I am also bringing value to this powerful community by being myself and contributing to the best of my abilities." Kohinoor Kar learned "..that I don'...
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JTA, Beep, and NAVYA autonomous shuttles help transport COVID-19 tests

The companies are partnering with Mayo Clinic to transport the tests on its Jacksonville Campus.
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Zenuity to be split in two parts

Half of the company is going to Volvo Cars, the other is going to Veoneer.
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TR News: Data’s Critical Role in Transportation Decisions

One of the most time-honored of the technical activities that TRB performs, state visits revealed lots of interesting issues in 2019, including a lot around the important role state Departments of Transportation increasingly have around data needs. The...
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Manufacturers taking different approaches to COVID-19 crisis

A survey by Clear Seas Research shows that despite the similar ways in which society is affected by the coronavirus, the impacts and strategies for dealing with it vary.
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Funding for Transit Innovators: TRB Accepting Proposals for 2020 Transit IDEA Funding Cycles

TRB is accepting proposals for the 2020 Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program, which supports the development and testing of unproven, innovative concepts and methods for advancing public transit practice. The deadline for s...
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Toyota researches human decision making

The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) has launched Machine Assisted Cognition (MAC) to predict human decision making. MAC aims to be scalable, using available data to develop and demonstrate artificial intelligence tools that can understand and predict h...
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Aptiv and Hyundai form joint venture

Hyundai Motor Group has formed an autonomous driving joint venture with technology company Aptiv. The 50/50 joint venture between the technology company and the Korean corporation aims to make mobility safer, green, more connected and accessible. Headq...
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Increasing acceptance of autonomous vehicles uncovers multi-billion-dollar opportunities in mobility services

Frost & Sullivan reports that the autonomous vehicle services market will cross $200 billion by 2030.
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A message from TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen regarding TRB and COVID-19

Dear Colleague, As a valued member of the TRB community, I wanted to update you on: the National Academies’ and TRB’s actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic TRB resources that are available to the transportation community TRB’s plans going forwar...
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AV market to boom as acceptance grows

The autonomous vehicle market could be worth over US$200bn in 2030 according to analysis by Frost & Sullivan. The consultant’s report, Future Business Models of Autonomous Vehicle Services 2030, analyzes the autonomous vehicle service market, the n...
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Genesis G80 offers luxury-focused technology

The Genesis G80 has made its digital world premiere, offering luxury and safety to the executive sedan. Entering the marketplace today (Monday, March 30) in South Korea, and in the second half of the year in other markets, the G80 comes with a number o...
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Robo-Taxi demonstration

This video shows the Robo-Taxi in operation. Developed by Bangalore-based design and technology company Tata Elxsi and San Francisco Bay Area artificial perception pioneer AEye, the vehicle accepts users’ requests for a taxi, arrives at the pick-up poi...
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Featured Centennial Paper – Meeting the Information Needs of the Road User

For more than 40 years, the TRB Standing Technical Committee on User Information Systems has been involved with every challenge, technology, and evolution of user information systems and has been engaged and involved in some of the world’s most pressin...
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History Highlights – Celebrating the 100th Synthesis of Highway Practice, Setting a Model for Transit and Airports

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) paused in 1983 to honor reaching the 100th National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis of Highway Practice in less than 15 years. To celebrate, TRB shared an insider view in TR News of how syn...
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TRB Centennial and Women’s History Month – Research Profiles – Julie Fee

"Every day more problems are identified than resources are available to solve, but some effort must address the future. This visionary aspect is important if we are to advance as a society. The trade-offs that must be made in the allocation of resource...
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